By Minahil Makhdoom
ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Sania Nishtar on Tuesday inaugurated the newly established monitoring center of Waseela-e-Taleem Digital housed in Ehsaas offices.
The digitally equipped control room has been set up to oversee large operations education Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme, considering the importance of central capability to monitor. To assist with this, 25 Compliance Monitoring Coordinators have been hired who would monitor the control room and 882 Compliance Monitors have been hired for monitoring in the field.
Over the last two years, comprehensive and deep-rooted reforms were deployed as a result of which massive reforms have been substantiated in the Waseela-e-Taleem Digital. There are four key pillars of reforms. First, end-to-end digitization of a number of processes, which are previously managed manually. Apps have been developed which are used by staff to register children and monitor compliance.
Secondly, cost-effective changes institutional infrastructure was developed to expand this program nationwide and reliance on Non-Government Organizations was eliminated. Because of this, operational cost has been reduced from eight to three percent.
